Perry, Pronger help Ducks edge Blue Jackets

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Ticker) -- The Anaheim Ducks have been the most
penalized team in the league, but on Monday their fortunes
changed for the better.

Corey Perry scored a pair of goals and Chris Pronger tallied the
game-winner late in overtime as the Ducks posted a 4-3 victory
over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Ryan Getzlaf had two assists and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped
32 shots for Anaheim, which won two of three games on its road
trip.

Anaheim, which entered the game with a league-leading 635
penalty minutes, converted a penalty shot and was 3-for-6 on the
power play.

"It was a special-teams game and tonight I think we won the
battle of the special teams," Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said.
"We scored all of our goals on special teams with three on the
power play and one on the penalty shot."

With 1:46 left in the extra session and the Ducks with a man
advantage, Pronger blasted a shot from the right faceoff circle,
which deflected off defenseman Adam Foote into the right side
past goaltender Pascal Leclaire.

"It was heavy," Pronger said. I think it went off Foote's
stick."

Anaheim snapped a 2-2 tie in the second thanks to its first
tally of the season via the penalty shot. With Columbus on the
power play, Anaheim center Samuel Pahlsson had a break away and
was hooked.

On the ensuing penalty shot, Pahlsson skated in and faked a
forehand before firing a backhander that beat Leclaire high on
the stick side with 1:16 remaining.

"It was good, especially when they had the power play," Pahlsson
said. It was fun, I had a plan and it worked out. You have to
try not to think too much, you have to have some idea what to do
and I knew what I wanted to do and it worked out fine.

"That's a key save I wish I make," Leclaire said. "I didn't do
it today but we came back and got a point."

Columbus tied the game at 3-3 when Nikolai Zherdev scored on a
5-on-3 power play with 3:07 left in regulation. Zherdev, who
extended his career-high point streak to six games, knotted the
game by jamming a rebound into an open net from the right slot
off shot by Michael Peca.

In a back-and-forth game, Kris Beech poked a rebound through the
pads of Giguere from the crease to make it 2-1 with 7:34 to
play in the second period. That tally came less than a minute
after Perry helped tie the game at 1-1.

Perry received a feed from Getzlaf on the left side of the
crease and fired a shot over a sprawled out Leclaire.

Columbus grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first as Rostislav Klesla
scored a power-play goal off an assist from Peca.

Leclaire stopped 24 shots for the Blue Jackets, who were 2-for-9
with the man advantage.

"Tonight we had a lot of good performances," Columbus coach Ken
Hitchcock said. "We made some mistakes and didn't do well on the
power play. We made some mistakes, but we had guys compete at
a really high level. It was good to see."